“In order to rehabilitate and decriminalize the mining industry, which according to [Aloys] Tegera, generates more than two-thirds of the revenue of North Kivu, it is necessary to, in the first place, work towards the re-establishment of the Congolese state. Any efforts by the international community to re-organize and legislate for the Congolese mining industry without taking this fundamental step into account risk failure, “unless, of course, the various lobbies have in mind a Congo without the Congolese, which would clearly be absurd.”
Excerpt from Pole Institute August 2010 Report called “BLOOD MINERALS:The Criminalization of the Mining Industry in Eastern DRC”http://friendsofthecongo.org/reports-a-studies.html